A review of combined sewer overflows as a source of wastewater-derived emerging contaminants in the environment and their management

• Published in: Environmental science and pollution research international Vol. 28; no. 25; pp. 32095 - 32110
• Main Author: Petrie, Bruce
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.07.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aquatic Pollution; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Chemical wastewater; Climate change; Combined sewer overflows; Consumer products; Contaminants; Decision making; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecotoxicology; Enantiomers; enantioselectivity; Environment; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Health; Environmental science; Markers; Pollutants; pollution; Pollution monitoring; Review; Review Article; storms; Stormwater; Urbanization; Waste Water Technology; wastewater; Wastewater treatment; Water Management; Water Pollution Control; Water treatment; watersheds; Micropollutant; Emerging contaminant; Pharmaceutical; Wastewater; Combined sewer overflow; Chiral

Emerging contaminants such as pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs and personal care products can be released to the environment in untreated wastewater/stormwater mixtures following storm events. The frequency and intensity of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) has increased in some areas due to increasing...